Subj : syncterm
To : Alan Ianson
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Mar 03 2023 04:45 pm
Hey Alan!
AI> OK, I guess that's the best we can do.
Nope. It doesn't even come close to the worst terminal /usr/share/terminfo/ has to offer which means by default ANYTHING native to that will be better. Also I'd add that /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux *IS* the best no matter what. Thus what I am currently using to reply to you *IS* the best we can do.
AI> When I first started BBSing that was "online".
Understood. My first login to a BBS was from a VAX/VMS dumb terminal rlogin to a geology library running a BBS as a frontend to the library's database. That was sometime around 1989-ish if I am not mistaken. Later it was farmed out to the horticultural department and they turned it into the first fidonet BBS I ever saw. It worked great. I don't recall the vt deployed by the dumb terminal but I bet it is more retro than anything the DOS-think sysops are even aware of.
Speaking of which;
:r !find /usr/share/terminfo -type f | wc -l | sed 's/^/ /'
2869
AI> I just realized the other day that vlc has an ncurses interface
AI> but I have never tried it.
I did but haven't for about 20 years now. I plan to add it into the mix soon.
AI> I'm going to have to get mplayer installed and try it out on the
AI> console.
I'd like to see that on your nvidia setup. It should work excellent on there using the fbdev2 video output. I've personally tested it with i915drmfb and amdgpu.
